View Of Culture Of Science Of Joseph Agassi

Joseph Agassi is a famous philosopher and historian of science. Joseph Agassi was born in Jerusalem. In Britain he did academic research following Karl Poppper for a long time. Then he worked in many places in the world. He carried on Popper's Critical Rationalism and performed a critical and intellectual analysis of that thought on philosophy of science. At last, Agassi formed a new theory on Pluralism of Critical Rationalism.According to historical backgrounds and theory origins of science culture, this paper analyses the main idea of Joseph Agassi's mind with logicaland dialectical method from Joseph Agassi's theory and practice. Expound on Joseph Agassi's clear view of science and culture : Science is an inherent department of modern culture. Science plays a part in human's cultural life by criticizing. On the one hand, studying Joseph Agassi with progress of human being's cultural history and historical backgrounds of science development and actual situation, we realise clearly the relation between science and culture: science has a close connection with other culture,there's no boundery. It is clear that cultural relativism is an irrational cultural outlook preventing the development of culture; on the other hand, analyze the reasons that Joseph Agassi refutes scientism with critical rationalism on the basis of theory of science culture at home and broad.He thinks that scientism is irrational science 'chauvinistic'. Thirdly,summarize Joseph Agassi's pluralism of critical rationalism thoroughly. In the base of protecting the cultural diversity of the world, pluralism searches for unity of cultural diversity, hunts for common value of varieties, strengthens dialogue among different national culture, deals with the challenge of cultural communication activly and makes full progress of human's culture.This essay studies and settles Agassi's thoughts of philosophy of science .And it analizes and evaluates Agassi's opposing scientism, cultural relativism and advocating pluralism of critical rationalism with careful consideration in dialectics to summarizes the contributions and limitations of his thoughts of philosophy of science.